Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 21, 2000
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In 1799, German naturalist Alexander van Hombodt discovered a pet parrots in the Amazon jungle that spoke the language of their former owners, the Maypure, a tribe who had all been killed in intertribal warfare! Gemini Wink of Louisville, KY., Became lost in a Florida swamp while taking photographs and spent the night duct taped to a tree branch 39.6 FT above the ground to keep away from alligators! Stephanie Mittler of Big Pine Key, Fla., while snorkeling, survived after being attacked by a needle nose hound fish that jumped out of the water and stuck her in the neck!